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The riverbed of the Jialing river in China's southwestern city of Chongqing, a tributary of the Yangtze river, runs dry as the country is hit by record temperatures and droughts. IMAGES
A Hong Kong cruise ship carrying 3,700 people was ordered back to port on Wednesday for virus testing after nine people were found to be close contacts in an Omicron variant outbreak. IMAGES
The first plane carrying US citizens evacuated from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan land at Travis Air Force Base in California. The charter flight touched down around 11:29 pm (0729 GMT Monday) at the base 40 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, an AFP photographer saw. IMAGES
Images show American tourists on buses leaving the port where their quarantined cruise ship is docked in Japan, to board chartered flights home as the number of new coronavirus cases diagnosed on the vessel jumped to 355. The Diamond Princess was placed in a 14-day quarantine in early February after a former passenger tested positive for the virus. Americans on board were given the option to leave the ship and fly home, where they will face another 14-day isolation period. IMAGES
Passengers are seen walking on the deck of the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan on Friday. The vessel has become the single largest cluster of cases outside China, with 218 testing positive for the COVID-19 virus as of Thursday and taken to medical facilities. IMAGES
Passengers begin disembarking a US cruise ship at a Cambodian pier, after the vessel had been blocked from several Asian ports over concerns that a passenger could have been infected with the new coronavirus. IMAGES
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